Why not just shut this team down?

[PrincessCanopyShop]

Here we are in one of the most politically charged atmospheres in American history and NO ONE is talking or posting on this team. We have a racist bigot who is out of control leading the GOP polls and not a peep from anyone here.
I understand why no one in the GOP wants to show there faces in shame, but there are other candidates to discuss. Anyone who thinks to resign to the inevitable Trump vs Clinton as the final result is deluding themselves. Bernie Sanders is a serious candidate, Marco Rubio is a serious contender when the Donald finally crosses one too many " OOh He did not just say that" territory

Have you all become sheep? Don't give me the "I've been so busy with my shop" line..... You cannot have been so totally immersed in your shop that you have not had an opinion on the Donald and his craziness. WHERE ARE YOU ALL? Maybe this is just not important enough to comment on, I am at a loss for why the only political opinions team on Etsy is so silent.

[PrincessCanopyShop]

Come on guys where are yall? I am not a Hillary fan so why can't we talk about who may be the nominees? I have a feeling that Trump has crossed the line and the gop are going to sabotage his campaign. Then you have Cruz. I was not one who ever believed the "Obama's not American" stuff because yes Hawaii is a US state,but Cruz was born in Canada. He says his mom was born in the US in Baltimore but no birth certificate and so where is the documentation that Cruz is an actual US citizen? Carson is fading fast, that leaves Rubio who can actually document his status as a US citizen. I am pulling for Sanders. He has fought against large corporate take over his entire political life and has never changed his belief that the 1% should pay their share of taxes. Voted and spoke AGAINST invading Iraq for the oil wealth.

[Former_Member]

Just been crazy busy lately. Picked up 2nd job that has me gone 10 hours a day. I've been watching what's going on and will be back soon. Just need some sleep first ;p

[ManicManx]

Vote for Sanders in the primaries and then throw your support behind the candidate who gets the democratic nomination.
Trump is a bombastic asshole and its a sad state of affairs that people think he is presidential material.

[PrincessCanopyShop]

I truly think the only people who are supporting Trump are white people who miss the glory days of the 50's or the "image" of it.
The US is changing and the group that is losing the most "first in line privileges" are white Americans. They have always gotten a first in line seat as if entitled because they are white. What they do not realize is that their own white privileged american corporations sold them and all of the jobs down the river.

All those tax breaks giving by the GOP under the banner of " we can't tax the "job makers" we need them, They own the factories and will bring back the middle class" they promise they will !!! ""

And what happened .....they took the tax breaks, kept a few offices here in the states, sent all of the real manufacturing jobs overseas and then took the huge windfall they made from slave labor and instead of keeping it in US banks where it was taxable they deposited it all in off shore bank accounts.

NOW there is a middle class in debt up to their eyeballs and Trump is telling them that they should be mad at those immigrants that are just a bunch of rapists, that stole their jobs and those blacks who are all criminals and those women should only be allowed to be seen if they are beautiful on a mans arm. Oh and the f#ggots who are destroying traditional marriage which he has had a LOT of experience with.

He is tapping into the hatred and anger that fox news and the GOP has been spewing all this time since Obama's election..

The real problem is so many are too stupid to see that WHITE OWNED CORPORATIONS white male dominated wall street and bankers and the GOP white male dominated house and senate has been selling them out all along under the disguise of "Standing up for American Values"!

They did not care if YOU were white too!! They have their own class of white, I guess it's called
" uber white"
There is a very simple definition for what Trump is doing and why he is popular it is called ""scapegoating"

I'm a Heinz 57 white American but I have embraced the future and ethnic diversity as the future color of our nation.

If the GOP is allowed to steal the white house this time we will all suffer under the stripping of civil rights, rolling back of advances for LGBT and you can be sure that there will be plenty of guns in the hands of everyone in the church pews of America, just in case a muslim tries to join their worship service !!
Jerry Falwell jr, president of LIberty University is registering their students to carry handguns on campus in case a Muslim tries to get in.

I'm not against white people ... I am against white people who are blaming minorities for all of their problems instead of finding out exactly what really happened to the american middle class that will not be there for their children. TRUMP is lying he and all of his billionaire buddies are the reason his supporters are broke in debt and or jobless. THIS IS INSANITY.

[ManicManx]

Preaching to the choir.
Were any of those people who love the Mayberry version of the fifties alive back then?
Probably not.
What I dont get is when you look at third world countries, they have people openly carrying weapons and being vigilant assholes. They have a bombastic leader obsessed with things like their hair. They restrict women's access to reproductive rights and jail them when they have miscarriages. The police forces are militarized and execute people on the street.
And this is what is happening here. Tea Party values are diminishing our country.

[PrincessCanopyShop]

Hmmm that sounds strangely like all of the rhetoric coming out of the gop debates from each of the various candidates. Roll all of their "original, patriotic,fearmongering and racebaiting" ideas together and you have .............. TADA.....
Germany in 1920's , as Hitler was convincing a humiliated, broken nation who's political leaders, launched a world war and lost BIG TIME that it was the Jews fault, and then it was the Non- Aryan peoples fault that they had no jobs and were literally starving.. BIG LIE... Trump says"" It's Obamas fault that ISIS was born in Iraq"" ... LIE. The vacuum of power in Iraq caused that !!

The GOP is seeing the true hatred and racism that many republicans felt on Jan 20th 2009 while most of the nation was truly proud and happy for Obamas election as well as happy to rid of dubya that day.
(I hear music... "NANANANA, nananana hey hey hey goodbye)

Hitler was a great big liar who had a mega-ego and a hatred for people who were "less than" in his opinion.
Read this from Anne frank.org and just see the similarities betyween Trump,Cruz and the other GOP's campaign rhetoric, it is as if they are using the textbook history of Germany in the 1900's to build their coalition of new ideas. All you need to do is substitute the "American moral majority" ( that's a code word for white republicans and they know that) for the word German and muslims mexicans, gays, blacks and women for the word Jew or Non-aryan.

Scary isn't it ???

http://www.annefrank.org/en/Education/Teachers-portal/Pupilsquestions/Why-did-Hitler-hate-Jews/